Nope. He is essentially the modern-day standard against which all PBP announcers should be measured

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Originally Posted by Alex

Team him with Darryl Raugh (sp?) in Dallas and that's the #1 pair in the league.

Yeah, and like Doc Emrick, Reaugh also brings the vocabulary variety to every game...who knew a save could be so mastodonic?

Speaking of Emrick, a guy named Derek Zona who does little else has watched enough of every broadcast team to write a report ranking them from worst to first at http://www.sbnation.com/2011/7/8/225...s-commentators. Even though he's unable to recognize the pure professionalism and excellence of Rick Peckham and nonsensically paints him with Chief's homerism in giving the pair 2 stars out of 5, it's an entertaining read. One link takes the reader on a ride to another post of his about Emrick specifically, whom he also gives 2 stars, where he reveals this humorous compendium:

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Today, with the help of some followers on Twitter, I bring you a list of words used by Doc Emrick in place of "passed" or "shot":